Little Red Riding Hood visits her grandmother's house during the story. Have children build models of what they think the grandmother's house looks like. Cover milk cartons, toilet paper tubes and small boxes or plastic containers with construction paper to make the main parts of a house. Draw or paint on doors and windows. For an edible version of Grandma's house, allow children to make edible houses using graham crackers, different colors of icing and colorful candies or pieces of cereal.
Help children relate to the story by having them make gifts for their grandparents. Make a construction paper handle for a small box covered with brown construction paper and fill it with candies or other goodies for a grandparent. Help children cut out pictures from magazines and make a collage of different things they love about their grandparents. Ask children to draw pictures of their grandparents. Have children make a construction paper frame to hold the picture or attach magnets to the back of the picture so it will hang easily on a refrigerator.
Allow children to make puppets to represent the different characters in "Little Red Riding Hood." Print out small pictures of the characters and have children color them and glue them onto wooden craft sticks for simple puppets. Decorate brown paper bags to represent the wolf, Grandma, Little Red Riding Hood and the woodsman, then hold a makeshift puppet show. For finger puppets, cover empty toilet paper tubes with construction paper to make the different characters. Cover the top of the Little Red Riding Hood toilet paper tube with red tissue paper to make her cape. For more elaborate puppets, cut the character shapes from felt and have children glue the pieces together to make puppets, then decorate them with markers and yarn.
Provide children with their own copy of the story to take home. Print out pages with the words to the story and allow children to add their own illustrations. Make a character book where each page contains the name of a character in the story and children draw a picture to represent that character. After reading the story, ask children to draw a picture to represent their favorite parts of the story.